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Transcript

Hello, and welcome to
this talk on LeadershipDevelopment of Women Executives.My name is Monique Valcour, and
I am Professor of Managementat EDHEC Business
School in Nice, France.

0:12

Here's what we'll
cover in this talk.First of all, why is
a focus on women'sleadership development important?What is the business case that we
can use to help get people on boardand embrace the importance of
fostering women's leadershipdevelopment within companies?Second, what do we
know from researchabout the careers of women leaders?What sorts of barriers do they
face that make their careersmore challenging than those of men?Third, what strategies
and solutions can weimplement both for individual
women who are looking to advanceto positions of senior
leadership and for promotinggender equity and broad-based
female leadership developmentwithin companies?

0:57

Why do we need to focus on
women's leadership development?Well, does this sound
familiar to you?"Just give it time;
not yet, but soon;when women get the right education,
the right training, the rightwork experience, and the
right aspirationsto succeed at the highest levels of
business, then we'll see parity."That comment was made in
a report from Catalyst.And what the report reveals
is that, at this stage,women are entering business
education, university education,and the entry level
of managerial careersat rates equivalent to or
even superior to those of men.At this point in time, based
upon historical movement of womeninto managerial careers
at the entry level,we should have seen a higher
proportion of senior level managersbeing women.So clearly, there are some barriers
that continue to exist that requirea concentrated focus on
both developing womenand on increasing gender
equity within corporations.